Raves from Attendees
Raves from previous delegates who have attended our Forums
| 2011 Forum |
Always adds value each time I attend, there is always something new that can be adopted at our site
Grant Kaczorowski, Site Manager, Sugar Australia Glebe
Very insightful presentations. Fantastic opportunity for sharing of learnings.
Melanie Ziliotto, TPM Coordinator, Simplot Australia Bathurst
Big Dave - we need more of him in our workplace! Great value (as always) too many companies missing out on hearing this great message. You learn so much from the whole forum, from presenters, team presentations and networking with other companies.
Gilbert Bruton, Mainpac Administrator & TPM3 Coordinator, Coopers Brewery
Another successful CTPM forum. Key note speaker, subjects were extremely relevant to our site & our current issues.
Graeme Buchanan, Production Manager, Sugar Australia Yarraville
The forum provided an excellent opportunity to experience what other organisations are implementing to obtain Operator Excellence.
Matthew Chenhall, NSW Operations Manager, B&D Doors & Openers
The team presentations gave us a great insight as to how the TPM methodology when utilised correctly assists in achieving the desired results.
Scott Donelly, Reliability Team Leader, Sugar Australia Glebe
It was interesting to find that no matter what industry the speakers were from, the journey & pitfalls encountered were readily addressed by the CTPM methodology.
Paul Kelly, Production Coordinator, B&D Doors & Openers
Thanks for inviting me back. I really enjoyed listening to all the speakers & Aussie Cup teams. There was a common theme around the Forum developing people. Great stuff!
Glen Willis, Oceania Market AM Pillar Leader, Nestle - Peters Ice Cream Factory
I attended 2008 again this year (2011). There has been a rapid evolution in the forum and agenda. The quality and content of presentations, team presentations, relevance of the speakers topics to the theme were of excellent value to me that i can apply back at my workplace. The agenda was well planned and balanced with regular breaks to hold my full attention. I want to be back next year.
Shailendra Narayan, Systems Manager, Sugar Australia Yarraville
The Annual Forum gives a very good overall summary of the aims and outcomes of TPM3 for those looking for more information.
Wayne Movigliatti, Maintenance Manager, Donaldson Australia
Good exposure to lessons learnt in other organisations.
Tony Grant, Production Manager, NZ Sugar
Unleashing the power of your people is the most important factor in continuous improvement. There is no better tool to do this than TPM3 .
Sam Saliba, Operations Manager Aust/NZ, B&D Doors & Openers
It is always interesting to see what otehrs are doing and how they are implementing TPM philosophies.
Aaron Jacobs, CI Coordinator, NZ Sugar
I found the forum very informative. With our company just starting out on the TPM journey, it highlighted the potential benefits we could achieve through use of these tools.
Jason Ennis, Technical Manager, Norske Skog (Albury)
I felt the Presenters were very informative.
Paul Coleman, CI TPM Specialist, Simplot Devonport
| 2010 Forum |
The forum was exceptionally informative. It was good to see FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) Companies who are going through the same experiences. The ability to network with your peers and discuss the challenges and roadblocks etc was also invaluable. All of the forum was relevant and useful.
Darren O'Toole, Shift Manager, Darrell Lea
Covered a wide variety of Key Engaging Elements in the core of the TPM journey. Tools of engagement or people skills are the drivers of success. Tools of engagement was the most useful part of the forum.
Paul Coleman, CI Specialist, Simplot Devonport.
A great opportunity to benchmark our lean Journey with other organisation.
Sam Saliba, National Operations Manager, B&D Doors and Openers
Good value in hearing about other sites successes. Team presentations and hearing others was most useful from the forum.
Tony Grant, Production Manager, New Zealand Sugar Company
Very good forum to share knowledge and learn new things. Speakers presentation most useful
Zainab Assegaff, TPM Supervisor, PT Kitadin
CTPM has provided an essential tool to align the business vision & strategy across the entire business. Some great & insightful presentations
Lyn Currie, Maintenance Manager, New Zealand Sugar Company
I valued all the participants in this event and benefited a lot from the experiences of others. I am looking forward to implementing some key actions i have learnt today. Liked Big Dave Staughton.
Daniel Chalabi, Engineer, New Zealand Sugar Company
Very good value, great day. Very informative thank you. Enjoyed team presentations.
Ben Morrison, Production Analyst, Midland Brick Company
Good to revisit the need for engagement. Key points - KPI's - some good ones. Lead from the top critical. Thought all parts of the forum was good.
Peter York, Supply Chain Development Manager, Simplot Australia
This is a great Forum to hear the 'successes' & some 'failures' that companies have experienced in the Lean & TPM3 journey. A great time to network, share & learn from others. All sections were good for various reasons.
Gilbert Bruton, Maintenance Planner / TPM3 Co-ordinator, Coopers Brewery
Excellent Forum, illustrated real TPM activity achievements by the people driving the improvements. Found the team presentations very useful.
Michael Finiotis, Business Improvement Manager, Futuris
The forum provided a good picture of current issues and activities across manufacturing business that are relevant to deliver long term success through sustained improvement. Team presentations i feel give us a closer picture of what actual results are being seen and the direct contributing factors.
Michael Heenan, Operations Manager, Sugar Australia
| 2009 Forum |
Very Informative guest speakers & it's a great place to network with other companies - Share the learnings.
Phil Guard, TPM Specialist, Simplot Ulverstone
The forum is excellent and honestly speaking I got nothing more to ask. Speakers are all excellent, honest, open to tell the real situational problems, power point presentations are all clear, showing before & after stages, sometimes with humour. So overall I have nothing but to say well done, excellent and keep on keeping on.
Ifor Gabasen, Team Leading Hand, New Zealand Sugar
Good to know about the journey other companies take with TPM and how problems are not unique to one set of people. Food forum to bounce TPM ideas.
Balaji Chandrasekar Operations Development Team, Nestle - Campbellfield VIC
Having Lean Capability does not just happen, it needs commitment and knowledge and the more effort that is put in the greater the returns. CTPM Annual Forum once again has provided excellent up to date, relevant and interesting information on key principles of Lean. Most problems in the workplace are not unique - networking with other organisations who attend the Forum opens the door to many unpaid Lean experts who may have already come up against it and have a solution.
Stephen Cook Warehouse Manager, Sanitarium Health Food Company Berkley Vale NSW
All speakers provided a great insight into each of their respective challenges. The team presentations gave a real and very practical application of their TPM learnings. I look forward to seeing B & D represented with a team presentation in a future final. All my expectations were met, thanks.
Troy Langby, National Quality Systems Manager, B & D Doors and Openers
Great day to keep the passion fuelled. To get to talk to others about the program and hear about challenges & means to success is important.
Greg Park, Corporate Development Manager, Darrell Lea Chocolates
Another very productive Forum. Informative speakers and passionate Aussie Cup finalists. If you don't take away more than a dozen ways to improve your site you have not listened. It would be a hard call to improve today's forum.
Robert Amor, Maintenance Manager, Siemens Water Technologies
Great Forum for networking. Excellent Forum with representation and presentations from many different business entities. More of Mick the demotivational speaker. Great Forum by CTPM.
Chis Duff, Operations Manger, Electrolux Home Products
I really enjoyed Andrew Horabin's input to the day. A novel & invigorating approach that I know everybody found to be both amusing & enlightening.
Geoff Downie, Continuous Improvement Co-ordinator, Simplot Echuca
I feel there is a great deal of benefit in the experience / project based presentations. Continue the event - I think it is a great vehicle for networking & transfer of knowledge.
Deanna Franco, CI Co-ordinator, Arnotts Biscuits
Very stimulating, inspirational.
Craig Yerbury, Production Manager, Midland Brick
Another great Annual CTPM Forum. Great mix of key note speakers & Aussie Cup finalists. Fantastic to hear the lean journey that other companies have been on.
Shane Warman, Production Sceduler, Sanitarium Health Foods Berkley Vale
The GFC has hit most companies hard. To manage our way through this there has been a renewed focus on leadership. How appropriate then is it for CTPM to have a forum based on "Leading the Journey to Excellence"
David Martin, Site Manager, Sugar Australia Glebe
2008 Forum
Another great year for Champions of Lean Manufacturing. Great networking opportunities with other organisations and people who are serious about Continuous Improvement.
Stephen Cook, Manufacturing Support Coordinator - Sanitarium Health Food Company
It was good to see a balance of practical and theoretical presentations on team development.
The pleasing fact was the teams involved had all delivered magnificent results and clearly shared involvement and pride in their companies. It was also obvious this was supported at the highest levels of these organisations. Well done!
Craig Breadmore, Operations Manager - CSR Ethanol Sarina
An excellent opportunity for networking & learning from other companies. You hear `first hand' from other companies how TPM is helping them
Gilbert Bruton Maint Planner / TPM3 Coordinator - Coopers Brewery
Very informative will be able to take lessons back to the company
Mark Hall, Glass Team Leader - Simplot Echuca
My first Forum. A very good blend of leadership intention & leadership in action and results of team activity. Well organized, very professionally put together.
David Martin Site Manager - Sugar Australia Glebe
Great Forum - high caliber list of speakers. Keep getting better well done.
Graham Bryant, Process Improvement Manager - Simplot
CTPM certainly has the structure we use to run our Lean Program
Terry Hall, Continuous Improvement Coordinator - Thales Bendigo
Great, well put together. Big eye opener for me. Back next year. Thanks for the experience.
Carolle Fisher - Simplot Bathurst
I found it to be of high value. This forum has given me a lot more drive to continue with TPM.
Adam Webster, Leading Hand - Simplot Bathurst
Informative & Fun. A great experience
Jayson Cowan, Backup Team Leader - Simplot Bathurst
Essential meeting place for like-minded companies on the improvement journey. Best one yet.
Stephen Ough, TPM3 Coordinator - Simplot Echuca
It gave me ideas for future TPM cycles and presentations. Good work done by all.
Susan Moorehead - Simplot Bathurst
CTPM provides a practical, realistic, cost effective winning process for industry to engage with their workforce achieving pride - inspiration - reduction of frustration plus some fun, all coming together via collective participation to achieve ongoing success in operational excellence.
Martin Oldereid, Production Controller - Sanitarium Health Food Company
I have been to the Forum for a number of years and each time I get new learnings from the presentations from teams and individuals working on Operations Improvement
Rohan Hodges GM Operations - Sugar Australia
The best one yet.
Alastair McCredden, Plant Manager - Simplot Echuca
A great opportunity for teams to be given credit by their peers for their achievement.
Harry Robertson, Process Manager - Simplot
It's great to have the opportunity to network with people with the same goal for operational excellence. Keeping learnings and knowledge to yourself may secure your position short term but almost guarantees your company will fail in the long term. The CTPM Forum is a terrific platform for Learnings - Teaching - Communicating and the depth of the Forum each year confirms it. Well done!
Robert Amor, Maintenance Manager - Siemens Water Technologies Memcor Australia
The team presentations demonstrated to me the intrinsic personal rewards that the TPM process engenders as a by-product of the involvement in the wide ranging tasks taken on by the diverse teams. All of the team members were engaged, involved and obviously very proud of their efforts and this can only be a benefit to each of their companies and the other members / workmates that they react with.
Geoff Downie, Team Leader - Simplot Echuca
Only a confident organisation will let all their customers gather under one roof and network. It shows the bigger picture of the project, forum to share real experiences from people doing things. These forums are very good and provide excellent `celebration' of results achieved.
Shivendra Kumar. Manufacturing Engineer - Siemens Water Technology Memcor
2007 Forum
The forum filled the very important role of self audit, that the philosophy we are pursuing is correct for us and the experience of others will assist in continuing to improve our application of TPM3 to attain our goals.
Bill Pearce - Managing Director, Wundowie Foundry
Very valuable to meet and talk to other company representatives over different issues we may have encountered or experienced. It was very interesting to hear all of the speakers give their presentations.
Mark Weeks - Supervisor, Coopers Brewery
Good helpful talks on how to help our TPM3 journey work better for our company.
Annette Rothemund - Co-ordinator, Simplot Kelso
The TPM3 Networking Forum was a truly learning experience. To hear other people's experiences of the TPM3 process in their workplace and how they dealt with various issues was beneficial. The forum format was well paced and enjoyable.
Anthony Downes - Team Leader, CSL Bioplasma
Its good to talk about common issues which face all companies & get different perspectives on how they overcome them.
Phil McKean - TPM3 Co-ordinator, Alphapharm
A very rewarding experience which gave me ideas to try in the future. From listening to the other company TPM3 experiences it can help us introduce improvements more effectively by not making some of the usual mistakes which comes with changing the culture.
Steven Barello - Supervisor, CSL Bioplasma
It was interesting to hear the good things but just as equal some of the failures. We learn from failures.
Gilbert Bruton - Maintenance Planner & TPM3 Co-ordinator, Coopers Brewery
The networking Forum was a powerful development tool for our TPM3 learning.
Daniel Lenane - Research & Development Manager, Wundowie Foundry
It was excellent that our TPM3 group could shave their experiences with other companies and visa versa.
Narein Mather - Senior Maintenance Engineer, CSL Bioplasma
The experience of others is a great learning process.
Nick Sterenberg - Development Manager, Coopers Brewery
Discuss solutions for common problems found at different companies and have a wider understanding of the ways to combat these issues.
Stewart Devine - ION Automotive
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